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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deleted user" data-source="post: 432058" data-attributes="member: 1778">Hunting is a hand me down tradition, not many new hunters just pick it up. When a lot of guys can’t hunt the areas they grew up hunting and can’t get access anywhere else, or the spots they can hunt are shot up all week, they start losing interest. Nationwide duck hunters are trending down. From what I remember seeing, the number of ND resident hunters wasn’t dropping at the same rate as the rest of the country until more recently (I’d have to double check). IMO around 2006 there was a big change in ND duck hunting. They got rid of almost all waterfowl rest areas. Everyone became a “guide”. Soybeans, canola, and corn that stood until November changed staging areas. Used to be you could hunt any old pond and get a few birds. Now they’re concentrated and so are hunters. The migration time changing I think made a lot of farmers who hunted birds quit as well but that’s just a hunch.Before I could even carry a gun, there would be a train of taillights heading out of town at 4:00 on the weekends, with trucks shining headlights on decoys in fields all along the way. This was also in the days of miles of unposted durum, barley, and CRP. I went home to hunt with my dad this year and nobody I talked to was going out, nobody at cenex in the morning, and the only other shooting we heard was from NRs on a WPA. And almost everyone says it’s either due to access or competing for a spot with 3 other trucks with blue plates took the fun out of it.</blockquote>

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